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Article: Mothers of soldiers and the Iraq War: justification through breakfast shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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- Women and Language
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Abstract: A comprehensive search of morning television shows was completed in order to accurately gauge the media's use of mothers as instruments of support and dissent for the current Iraq War. The mother as justifier is presented in dialogues about (their) soldier children, the war, and, in some instances, democracy. This justification is presented through two categories of motherhood the mother as supporter/caregiver and the mother as representative/proud mother--which were dominant representations on the breakfast shows. While a .few stories held an air of dissent, this dissent actually was nothing more than a straw man technique, which ultimately reinforced the ...